Ghost FleetA Novel of the Next World War
(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, June 2015)

The United States, China, and Russia eye each other across a twenty-first century version of the Cold War, which suddenly heats up at sea, on land, in the air, in outer space, and in cyberspace. The fighting involves everything from stealthy robotic-drone strikes to old warships from the navy's "Ghost Fleet." Fighter pilots unleash a Pearl Harbor-style attack; American veterans become low-tech insurgents; teenage hackers battle in digital playgrounds; Silicon Valley billionaires mobilize for cyber-war; and a serial killer carries out her own vendetta. Ultimately, victory will depend on blending the lessons of the past with the weapons of the future.

Ghost Fleet is a page-turning speculative thriller in the spirit of The Hunt for Red October. The debut novel by two leading experts on the cutting edge of national security, it is unique in that every trend and technology featured in the novel - no matter how sci-fi it may seem - is real, or could be soon.

A generation ago, "cyberspace" was just a term from science fiction, used to describe the nascent network of computers linking a few university labs. Today, our entire modern way of life, from communication to commerce to conflict, fundamentally depends on the Internet. And the cybersecurity issues that result challenge literally everyone: politicians wrestling with everything from cybercrime to online freedom; generals protecting the nation from new forms of attack, while planning new cyberwars; business executives defending firms from once unimaginable threats, and looking to make money off of them; lawyers and ethicists building new frameworks for right and wrong. Most of all, cybersecurity issues affect us as individuals. We face new questions in everything from our rights and responsibilities as citizens of both the online and real world to simply how to protect ourselves and our families from a new type of danger. And yet, there is perhaps no issue that has grown so important, so quickly, and that touches so many, that remains so poorly understood.

What happens when science fiction becomes battlefield reality? A
military expert reveals the coming high-tech revolution in warfare,
examining its vast effects and warning of its historic and potentially
deadly impact.

Corporate WarriorsThe Rise of the Privatized Military Industry
(Cornell University Press, 2003)

DESCRIPTION
More than 20,000 private soldiers serve in Iraq, including at Fallujah
and Abu Ghraib; from the Balkans to Central Asia, corporations now
run the supply chain of US forces; an army for hire takes on rebel
forces in West Africa, with diamond mines as the prize. In this
book, P.W. Singer provides the first account of the military services
industry and its broader implications, replete with case studies
of such firms as Halliburton and Executive Outcomes. The privatization
of warfare allows startling new capabilities and efficiencies in
the ways that war is carried out. At the same time, however, the
entrance of the profit motive onto the battlefield raises a series
of troubling questions--for democracy, for ethics, for law, for
human rights, and for national security.

AWARDS
Named Top Five Book of the Year in International Affairs by the
Gelber Prize
Named Top Ten Summer Read by Businessweek
Winner of the 2004 Edward Said Book Award
Winner of the 2004 best policy book of the year by the American
Political Science Association

“Prescient, cogent, and lavishly researched.” New
York Review of Books

“Many fine volumes about U.S. foreign policy and world events
have been published in recent months. This one is something special.
Corporate Warriors might just be a paradigm shift. It may change
the way people look at history and analyze current events…a
must-read…” Sunday Gazette

DESCRIPTION
The first American serviceman killed by hostile first in Afghanistan
was a Green Beret, shot by a fourteen-year-old boy; just a few weeks
after, a Special Forces medic was killed by a grenade thrown by
a fifteen-year-old al Qaeda recruit later imprisoned at Guantanamo
Bay; suspected militants detained by U.S. forces in Iraq included
more than one hundred children under the age of seventeen; hundreds
taken hostage in Thailand were held captive by the rebel "God's
Army," led by twelve-year-old twin brothers. These are but
examples within the more than 300,000 cases of children presently
at war around the world today.

Children at War is the first comprehensive book to examine
the growing and global use of children as soldiers. P.W. Singer,
an internationally recognized expert in twenty-first-century warfare,
explores how a new strategy of war, utilized by armies and warlords
alike, has targeted children, seeking to turn them into soldiers
and terrorists. Weaving in quotes from the children themselves,
he lays out the underlying causes of child soldiering, the methods
by which children are recruited and trained for war, and the dark
implications for global security. With a fuller understanding of
how the doctrine emerged, he then provides the answers for how this
terrible practice can be defeated.

REVIEWS
“Fascinating…[A] heartfelt, valuable book …Singer
has gathered his evidence masterfully.” New York Post

“Why? [are there child soldiers?] In his landmark new book
Children at War, P.W. Singer begins to provide some answers.”
Newsweek

“P.W. Singer’s eye-opening book serves as a platform
to reassess perceptions of modern warfare. In it, he expresses truths
that most people would hesitate to mention…Overall, it’s
more than an interesting read –its an invaluable resource
for the long term.” The Washingtonian